Installing Nginx on cPanel / WHM Server

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Nginx is a open source powerful web server which can handle millions of visitors. Nginx setup in reverse will boost up cPanel/WHM Server. cPanel does not officially support nginx yet but we can set up nginx on cPanel using NginxCP installation script , which provide good performance with cPanel Servers because

Nginx setup in reverse proxy support static contents like css, images, swf file , javascript etc and forward the remaining dynamic requests to apache web server, that the process called as Nginx reverse proxy and Nginx behaves like front end server.

Benefits of Nginx on cPanel & WHM :

Boost up server performance with Gzip compression.

Plugin Integrated with cPanel/WHM Service Monitor.

Nginx Admin help to manage Nginx directly from WHM .

Support of PHP Rewrite .

Selection of service Nginx or Apache on domain basis.

Nginx pass trusted web requests , this will protect from common attacks .

Steps to install Nginx Admin :

Access the server through SSH with root account and get terminal command line and go into the directory through below command .